Soul Color Meme

Ganked from erstexman (who got it from bullchef). I like this assessment; when I first got into it, I assumed (for some unknown reason) right off that my color would be purple. Interesting how this turned out!

What color is your soul painted? Purple Your soul is painted the color purple, which embodies the characteristics of sensuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nobility, mystery, enlightenment, arrogance, gaudiness, mourning, confusion, pride, delicacy, power, meditation, religion, and ambition. Purple falls under the element of Earth, and was once a European symbol of royalty; today it symbolizes the divine. Click Here to Take This Quiz

Cities I've Visited

This is kind of silly, given the amount of travel I've done. It's interesting to plot it, actually, and I did this in Facebook through one of the multitudes of applications that have been built in FB. I update the map when I go somewhere and sometimes before I go; people can let me know of things I absolutely have to do or see or experience in those places. That's something I find extremely helpful. Plus, if someone's not been to one of these places, I might be able to provide some insights - especially in my favorites because I've been there often or lived there. Have fun!

1. Wurzburg, Germany


2. Leipzig, Germany


3. Prague, Czech Republic


4. Vienna, Austria


5. Paris, France


6. Salzburg, Austria


7. Berlin, Germany


8. Provincetown, MA, USA


9. Atlantic Beach, NC, USA


10. Kauai, HI, USA


11. New York City, NY, USA

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Fuerza Bruta (Brute Force)

Last Saturday night, we invited my friend Joey up to NY for Fuerza Bruta performed in a theater at Union Square. I heard about the show on Facebook and looked at the website. Immediately, it seemed like an unique show for not only NYC but Joey's repertoire of Broadway-ish shows. He goes to about 20-30 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows a year, if not more. The shows are typically musicals, but sometimes he does see plays. Once in a blue moon, he'll take in a show like Stomp or Blast that are musical shows and have (virtually) no dialogue or lyrics.

When I invited him to something, I try to find unusual things for us to see since his greatest interest is in shows that aren't opened yet and shows that one typically thinks is "Broadway". There's often a month or two of showings before opening night for the directors to get a take on the NY review pulse and get input from the crowds on tweaks to the show they should make before it opens. BUT, the cool thing with pre-opening shows is, you get to see shows with the blockbusting actors and actresses almost in the raw and before cuts or slashes are made to the production.

Fuerza Bruta certainly didn't disappoint and it's been in NYC for about 2 years. The tickets I got for us were for a Saturday night at 10 PM for a "Boys' Night" show. "Boys' Night" tickets are for shows where the men of Fuerza Bruta (Brazilians) "come out front and center". I wasn't really sure what that meant, but I figured that there would probably be a little more skin and more men in the show than during a normal performance. I suppose they were right because during the performance we saw only about 4 women total compared to about 10 pretty HOT men. Before the show, we had a couple of beers and I noticed one of the contestants from this season of Project Runway at our showing was standing like 10 feet away from me (Nicolas - ugh). I didn't approach him, although he kept looking at me and chatting to his friends. Strange fella.

The show is very fast, there's no intermission, and the crowd interactively has to move around the theater - you're standing for the 70 minutes of the show in a black room. Everything happens in front of you or above you, hence, "Look up!" in the promos. The show starts with a man walking then running on a 6 foot wide by 10 foot long treadmill. There's a lot of wind, paper, great music, movement, water, and visuals that make it seem you're alive and moving in a Picasso painting. At one point, Joey says to me quite loudly, "Who the fuck thinks up this shit?" Next to him, a girl's jaw drops, she grabs him, and she pulls him up on a stage to dance above the crowd with the cast!! I was floored - one of the pictures shows him dancing on the stage with one of the guys. It was really fun!!

There isn't necessarily a storyline in the show, but I was able to glean something out of the abstract images portrayed for a scenario: A man is going about his business, his work, and his daily life and meets a lot of tragedy and unexpected obstacles. He bustles through crowds, loses his step, falters a bit, but picks himself up and moves forward. Then he is faced with extreme challenges and takes a plunge into the unknown, but finds good footing with friends beside him running through life together.

Highly recommended and fascinating!! Here are some pictures from the show: